With four ecosystems ranging from swampland to dense forest, Chobe National Park is an excellent area to spot all major African species including a huge elephant population – around 60,000 large Kalahari elephants migrate from the Chobe Riverfront to the southeast pans during the wet season. Along the river you can enjoy cruises that enable you to see the wildlife from a different vantage point, spotting hippo and crocodiles up close.
5 Hotels, 2 Tours, 3 Safaris
Set in the northeast of Botswana, the Makgadikgadi Pan is actually a collection of pans with sandy desert between them. It is all that remains of a once immense lake which dried up several thousand years ago, leaving a pan covered with a dry salty crust. In the rainy season the pans can hold some water which in turn brings birds and animals. During the dry seasons they are vast expanses of white, beautiful and ideally explored by quad bike.
1 Hotel
Covering much of the eastern side of the Okavango Delta, Moremi – though not one of the largest parks – offers motorboat and mokoro canoe trips (depending on the camp and the season) along the winding waterways of the Okavango Delta, fascinating geographical features such as Chiefs Island and Moremi Tongue, and a vast array of animal, bird and plant life including the endangered African wild dog.
3 Hotels, 2 Safaris
Chobe National Park
Makgadikgadi Pans
Moremi Game Reserve
